the Association urine-guy by the ear
Van Vleck at lunch said he yesterday saw Pemulis and Hal coming out of Tavis’s office with the Association urine-guy holding them both by the ear.
Context
The Eschaton discipline's real consequence surfacing as gossip: Pemulis and Hal frog-marched out of Tavis's office by the "Association urine-guy" by the ear, and Avril's own weary triad — "Eschaton, teeth, and urine" — filing the drug-test alongside the debacle and the dental work as the week's three troubles. The piss-test reckoning that shadows the secret users named twice in passing.